accompany?
Li Qingluo looked up at Duan Rongshi.
When I saw his pitiful eyes, I couldn't say no.
He has been with her all the way, so how could she bear to leave him alone in the Guifu Palace, lonely and cold?
She touched her chin, a thoughtful look on her face: "It's not impossible..."
Li Qingluo left with Eunuch Hai early the next morning.
She fell into the hot spring last night and naturally got soaked all over.
After Duan Rongshi's repeated requests, he stayed in the bedroom of Guifu Palace.
She slept in the main hall.
Duan Rongshi spent the night on a couch behind a screen.
When they parted, Duan Rongshi stood at the window under the green tree, staring at her quietly without blinking.
Li Qingluo turned his head several times.
It was not until he left the palace that he met up with Ling Fengzi who had come to meet him.
Duke Hai bid farewell to Li Qingluo: "Don't worry, young lady. I will take good care of your Highness."
Li Qingluo knew that this eunuch Hai must be Duan Rongshi's confidant in the palace.
"Then I'll trouble you to take care of it."
Eunuch Hai: "Miss, you are too polite. It is a blessing for me to have the opportunity to serve Your Highness."
"Miss, could you please help me bring some things to my mother?"
Li Qingluo: "Your mother?"
Eunuch Hai: "My mother is Granny Ning who lives in Guiyuan."
Guiyuan! ?
Li Qingluo seemed to understand a lot of things.
She took the small package from Eunuch Hai, which contained a letter from home and some silver.
"I know my mother is happy in Guiyuan, but please tell her to spend her money as she pleases, and don't rush to find me a wife."
"I will never be able to marry a wife in my lifetime."
"But I don't regret it. I can still help His Highness with things. At least I can still live like a human being."
After saying goodbye to Eunuch Hai, Li Qingluo mingled with the crowd of young Taoist priests again.
This time I followed Qingyangzi out of the palace, so it went even smoother than last night.
Sha Qi and Sha Jiu were waiting for her outside the palace.
Seeing her finally come out, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
The three of them went to Guiyuan first.
After Li Qingluo found Grandma Ning, he handed the package to her.
When Granny Ning saw her son's letter, she danced with joy.
The others followed her lead and happily put their heads together to read the letter.
Li Qingluo still didn't know how to start talking about Eunuch Hai persuading Granny Ning to be generous with the money.
Granny Ning asked first, "Miss, is he doing well as a clerk in the palace?"
Li Qingluo: "Do you know he works in the palace?"
Granny Ning: "Of course. When he was ten, he was running around on the street and got trampled by a horse. So he decided to go to the palace to help His Highness."
"I haven't seen him in almost six years."
Granny Ning wiped her eyes, and the other mute slaves comforted her with concern.
Li Qingluo asked a question she had long wanted to know: "Did you all live in the palace before?"
Although everyone was frozen and hesitant for a moment, they still answered her.
"Yes. We old ones used to be in the palace."
These old people all had their tongues cut off.
Not born deaf and dumb.
And what about the young mute slaves?
“Actually, we can talk.”
Suddenly, a young mute slave looked at Li Qingluo and spoke.
Li Qingluo was shocked.
"So you're not dumb?"
The young mute slave only said that one sentence and then started signing again.
"Your Highness doesn't allow us to talk in Guiyuan."
"He told us to get used to being dumb so that we can protect ourselves."
Li Qingluo: "Then who are you?"
Mute slave: "We are their descendants. We have lived in this Guiyuan for seventeen years."
Seventeen years!
When Duan Rongshi was six years old, his mother died suddenly in the palace.
He just turned twenty-three this year.
Isn’t it exactly seventeen years?
Li Qingluo: "But I heard that after the Imperial Concubine passed away, His Majesty slaughtered Guifu Palace with blood, leaving no one alive."
"What's going on?"
The mute slaves dared not say any more.
I could only reply in sign language: "The girl is your highness's confidant."
"Young lady, you should ask His Highness yourself about these matters."
After bidding farewell to the mute slaves in Guiyuan, Li Qingluo did not return to General Xiuli's Mansion first, but went to Prince Su's Mansion again.
Zhui Yu and the other three were not at home, but Eunuch Wu was still in Prince Su's Mansion.
Li Qingluo, accompanied by Eunuch Wu, went to see Qin Ling and asked him for something.
Li Qingluo returned home when it was almost dark.
After a night's sleep, I went out again at dawn.
This time, it’s a long journey.
Li Qingluo brought Shaqi and Shajiu to meet Ling Fengzi.
After the three of them disguised themselves as little Taoist priests, they still entered the palace smoothly.
The palace, which was originally heavily guarded, has now been turned into a vegetable market by the Qingsong Temple, where people can come and go as they please, and even the guards guarding the palace gates are helpless.
Li Qingluo went to sit cross-legged outside Zichen Store for an hour, had lunch with other brothers, and was then taken to Guifu Palace.
When Hai Gong opened the door, he saw another unfamiliar young Taoist priest coming in and felt a little dissatisfied.
"What does this mean?"
Qing Yangzi: "This is our junior fellow Taoist priest Luo Yi."
"Although he looks young, his cultivation of Taoism is only slightly inferior to mine."
"The Imperial Master will be performing a ritual at Guifu Palace soon, so I need you to come and stay there first to set up the temple and collect the resentment within."
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